Author	Maung, Maung S., author
Title	Socio-Cultural Values and Economic Backwardness: A Case Study of Burma / Maung S. Maung
Imprint	Ann Arbor : University Microfilms International, 1969
Connect to	https://digiverse.chula.ac.th
Descript	265 leaves

Bases dissertation on assumptions that labor is the source of all wealth and that capital is made at home. Explains the sociological approach and defines ideology, culture, value and value-orientation. Discusses Max Weber's hypothesis on the relationship between religion and economics. Describes pre-colonial and colonial Burmese society, covering geographical background, social organization and administrative organization. Examines Burmese family patterns, noting attitudes toward parents and child-rearing. Explains animism and Burmese Buddhism, man and nature, anatta doctrine, theory of moral causation, Sangha and Nirvana. Analyzes experiment with parliamentary democracy and causes of Burma's delayed industrialization. Describes efforts to synthesize Marxism with Buddhism. [TAIC]

1. geography
2. customs
3. economics
4. religion
5. labour
6. politics
7. attitudes
8. technical cooperation
9. youth
10. social patterns
11. bibliographies
12. Myanmar
13. Japan
14. United Kingdom

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